The Arts, Culture and Library Commission of San Leandro met on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, at 6:50 PM (agenda called for 6:30 PM) in the Trustees Room of the Main Library. The meeting was chaired by Chair Scotland and included roll call, approval of prior minutes, staff reports, and a major action item on the 2025 Arts & Culture Grant Program recommendations. Seven grants totaling $46,500 were approved for funding, leaving $28,500 unallocated for future discussion.
Library Commission meeting of April 15th, 2025 to order at 6 50 p.m. Bill, will you please take the roll call? Yes. Chair Scotland. Present. Vice Chair Miller. Commissioner Alvarez. Present. Commissioner Cassidy. Present. Commissioner Gillary. Commissioner Ridsdale. Present. Commissioner Smith. Present. Commissioner Seo. Commissioner Velasquez. All right. I count five, sufficient for a quorum. Right. Yay. Item two, announcements. There are no announcements. Moving to item three, consent calendar. Minutes of the March 19th, 2025 meeting. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of March 19, 2025? So move. Can I go to seconds? Any discussion? All right. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Moving on to item four, library services staff report and announcements. Thank you, Chair Scotland. Um, I have a couple of items I wanted to uh report out. Um is on the uh comedy in the plaza request for bid, which uh closed in late February. And uh wanted to let the commission know that we received three bids for the 2025 Comedy in the Plaza, and after consideration of those three bids, those three solid bids from very qualified producers, the library department with the city manager's office decided that we are going to do the comedy festival, which we've been talking about for some time. Um to basically expand it from just comedy in the plaza to uh a larger event comedy in the comedy festival. So we're able to fund that because we're at the end of the fiscal year and we're doing uh planning for uh the budget for the end of the fiscal year and realized we could make it work financially. Uh it's not a small feat, but we're gonna do it. And now we're working out the details um and the contracts with each of the producers, and we're super excited to finally go forward with this festival because we wanted to you know talked about uh taking it to that level for this uh for a while. Um so we've we've got to wrap up those contracts and then we'll move on to a promotional push because it's gonna be basically three different shows is what we're looking at over one weekend. Um so we need to be able to do a big promotional push, and as soon as we have those contracts in place, so you should see that promotional material before the next commission meeting. So they're funding all three proposals, in other words, to make a festival. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.